Decentring urban governance : narratives, resistance and contestation
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Decentring urban governance : narratives, resistance and contestation
(Routledge studies in governance and public policy, 32)
Routledge, 2018
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Decentring Urban Governance seeks to rethink governance not as a particular state formation, but as the diverse policies emerging associated with the impact of modernist social science on policy making, considering the diverse meanings that inspire governing practices across time, space, and policy sectors in urban context.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book goes beyond neoliberalism, and is interested in other webs of meaning through which actors encounter, interpret, and evaluate social science, which have received less analytical attention. All these different webs of meaning - elite narratives, social science, and local traditions - influence patterns of action. The book creates an analytical space by which to consider situated agency and localised resistance to the discourses and policies of political elites, including the myriad ways in which local actors have resisted practices of governance on the ground.
This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of urban governance, governance and more broadly to the social sciences, housing, social policy, law and welfare studies.
Table of Contents
1. Decentring Urban Governance: Agency, Resistance, and Place [Mark Bevir, Kim McKee and Peter Matthews] 2. Foucault's Duel: Constructed Narratives and Webs of Meaning in Anti-social Behaviour and Welfare Benefits Governance in the United Kingdom [John Flint] 3. Youth Unemployment, Interdependence and Power: Tensions and Resistance within an Alternative, "co-produced" Employment Programme [Richard Crisp and Ryan Powell] 4. Gender, Planning, and Epistemic Injustice [Yasminah Beebeejaun] 5. What Difference do Rights Make? Decentering the Governance of Children's Outdoor Play in Scotland and Wales [Jenny Wood] 6. Racism Intergenerational Tensions and Community Governance in the Neighbourhood [Peter Matthews and Janice Astbury] 7. What Ever Happened to the Liverpool Model? Urban Cultural Policy in the Era after Urban Regeneration [Peter Campbell and Dave O'Brien] 8. Statutory Overcrowding Standards and England's Crisis of Housing Space [Helen Carr] 9. Decentring House Building Law in England [Antonia Layard]
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